This is my last blog post processed using my new favorite website, wordle.com . I think they are on to something. I know I appreciate the simple idea of taking my words and making them something visual and graphic. I am reminded when I started architecture school that we were taught in our first drawing class, that if you can write then you can draw. This defines our writing as art, or a form of art. I still believe this to be true. To test this, all of you who think you are no good at drawing, the next time you write something don't look at the letters and characters, but look at the white space in between. There you will see what I am talking about. It will appear as another language or something foreign, but after a while you will, like me, be able to jump back and forth between the written words and the negative space surrounding them with great ease.
This wordle example is obviously not hand written, but by randomly composing the words this way it makes you see the space between the letters.
I also should give credit to the blog where I first came across wordle. That would be fellow architect Geoff at bldgblog.com Thanks!
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